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Reprinted with permission from “False Black Power” by Jason L. Riley (Templeton Press), 2017. A few days after Trump’s surprise victory over Hillary Clinton , I walked around New York City’s Harlem neighborhood and got reactions from a couple dozen black residents. Postelection street

False charges about Obamacare don't help. Like the end-of-life tempest. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin popularized the term "death panels." She said : "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so

When we last heard from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin she was -- not without some justification -- beseeching some members of the media to "quit making things up." But in a post on her Facebook Page today, the 2008...

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2008: ABC NEWS VIDEOS: Obama's 30-Minute TV Ad: LINK Obama on Life After Election Day: LINK Political Ads In Video Games?: LINK 'View' Admits to Having Election Fatigue: LINK 2008: McCAIN and OBAMA: ABC News' Tahman Bradley: "Don't Touch That Dial: A Message From the President of the United States

One of the nuns who had mentored him suggested he apply to Holy Cross, in Worcester, Mass., where a friend from his all-black high school was also a student. With excellent grades from high school and Immaculate Conception, and the strong recommendation from the nun, he was accepted. He wouldn't

NOTED NOW TODAY'S SCHEDULE (all times ET) FUTURES CALENDAR Morning Show Wrap Evening Newscasts Wrap 7 days until the Republican convention 71 days until election day NEWS SUMMARY The big political moment of the day comes when the president speaks at a press availability this morning in Crawford,

Rep. J.C. Watts Jr. was raised by a family of Democrats on what was referred to as "the wrong side of the tracks" in little Eufaula, Okla. So why and how did Watts become the first African American to hold a Republican Party leadership position in the history of the U.S. Congress? Watts, who is